Hey everyone, I surveyed the Laurel area for the MOS PG 
county fall count yesterday (9/16/07).  What follows are my 
species totals for the day, which included some owling 
pre-dawn and post-dusk (without luck).  Locations included 
my feeders at home, the Rocky Gorge Reservoir/Supplee Park 
(unfortunately access to the boat ramp was closed), and 
various "hot spots" around Laurel.

I got 60 species for the day, with the most unusual 
including: an adult YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (upstream 
from the lake near the shopping centers on Route 1), 8 
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS flying over my yard (yard bird!), a 
LAUGHING GULL lounging with the other gulls on a department 
store roof near the Laurel lake, a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in 
the Laurel riverfront park, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES and 2 
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS (male & female) at Supplee Park, and 
an AMERICAN PIPIT on Muirkirk Rd near MD-197 (the bird had a 
noticeable yellowish wash under the tail that's not 
discussed in my field guides -- is this a known variation?).

Some notable misses for the day: shorebirds (pretty tough in 
my area), Fish Crow (had 3 crow "sp."), thrushes other than 
bluebird and robin, Song Sparrow, and grackles and 
blackbirds.  For a while I thought I was going to miss HAIRY 
WOODPECKER, but our regular male finally showed up at our 
feeders just before sunset!

189 Canada Goose
  55 Mallard
   1 Great Blue Heron
   1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
   2 Black Vulture
  13 Turkey Vulture
   2 Osprey
   3 Red-shouldered Hawk
   8 Broad-winged Hawk
   2 Red-tailed Hawk
   1 Laughing Gull
  26 Ring-billed Gull
  30 Rock Pigeon
  50 Mourning Dove
   1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
   4 Chimney Swift
   1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
   1 Belted Kingfisher
  11 Red-bellied Woodpecker
  12 Downy Woodpecker
   1 Hairy Woodpecker
   5 Northern Flicker
   2 Pileated Woodpecker
   3 Eastern Wood-Pewee
   1 Eastern Phoebe
   1 Great Crested Flycatcher
   2 White-eyed Vireo
   3 Red-eyed Vireo
  32 Blue Jay
  24 American Crow
  16 Carolina Chickadee
  14 Tufted Titmouse
   2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
   8 White-breasted Nuthatch
  16 Carolina Wren
   4 House Wren
  10 Eastern Bluebird
  24 American Robin
  21 Gray Catbird
  13 Northern Mockingbird
   3 Brown Thrasher
  96 European Starling
   1 American Pipit
  19 Cedar Waxwing
   2 Northern Parula
   2 Chestnut-sided Warbler
   5 Magnolia Warbler
   1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
   3 Black-throated Green Warbler
   4 Black-and-white Warbler
   3 American Redstart
   1 Ovenbird
   4 Eastern Towhee
   5 Chipping Sparrow
  46 Northern Cardinal
   2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
   4 Brown-headed Cowbird
  33 House Finch
  26 American Goldfinch
149 House Sparrow

-- 
Derek C. Richardson, Laurel, PG County, MD
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/Archives/Photos/birds.html